Birthday celebrations are approaching after a difficult year for the Queen. It’s been barely a year since Prince Philip, her “strength and stay”, died last April and since then she’s lived alone with her staff and beloved dogs at Windsor Castle.
She fought off Covid and attended her late husband’s memorial service at Westminster Abbey on March 29. Andrew’s sexual abuse case along with Prince Harry’s Oprah appearance and upcoming bombshell memoir have caused anxiety behind palace walls.
Her Majesty certainly deserves a happy birthday celebration. But if past birthdays are anything to go by, she’s likely to spend the day serving her country.
In 1976, aged 50, she attended an engagement with people who’d won the Victoria Cross for extreme bravery in the Armed Forces.
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